Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Washington's Tyranny

By Paul Craig Roberts



The war criminal barack obama has declared his "outrage" over the 62 deaths associated with the takeover of a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall by al-Shabaab fighters. But the attack on the shopping mall was obama's fault. Al Shabaab spokesmen said that the attack on the Nairobi mall was a retaliatory response to the Kenyan troops sent to fight against them in Somalia. The Kenyan troops, of course, were sent to Somalia as a result of pressure from Washington.
Just as the outbreak of violence in Mali resulted from the fighters that obama used against Gaddafi moving into Mali, Washington's violence against Somalia has resulted in the terrorist attack on the Nairobi mall.
This fact again raises the never-asked question: What is the real agenda of Washington's "war on terror"? The western presstitutes never ask this question, nor do western legislative bodies.
Washington has offered a variety of justifications for its 12 years of wars. One is that Washington is rooting out terrorism in order to protect Americans from 9/11 type events. Another is that "dictators" must be overthrown and replaced with "freedom and democracy." Still another is false claims of the possession of "weapons of mass destruction" (Iraq) and the use of "weapons of mass destruction" (Syria).
None of Washington's claims can withstand the barest scrutiny. None of the governments that Washington has overthrown and seeks to overthrow are terrorist states. Indeed, some are not even Islamist governments. Saddam Hussein's Iraq had a secular government, as does Assad's Syria.
Washington's explanations for murdering Pakistanis and Yemenis with drones are even more nebulous. Moreover, using military means to kill citizens of countries with which the US is not at war lacks all legality.

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